"I've come to find you, sister."
Ruan Chen didn't have time to ask how the little guy got here. Before the gang of thugs brought by Ruan Qin could react, he grabbed Fu Jianzhi and ran!
Fu Jianzhi, nestled in her arms, swaggered over the men who were chasing after him in a fit of rage, waving his stick at them, and his elbow struck Ruan Chen on the back of the head.
"Ruan Chen!"
She bumped into Chen Mohan.
When Chen Mohan saw the little boy Ruan Chen was holding, her expression changed for a moment, but she quickly returned to normal. "Don't panic, all of our classmates are here... Is this your relative's child?"
"...I guess so."
“It’s too messy,” Chen Mohan said, opening up a fire escape and taking the stick from Fu Jianzhi’s hand. “Little brother, go inside and hide.”
Just as Fu Jianzhi slipped inside, Ruan Qin caught up with him.
Because of the angle, Ruan Qin didn't see who had injured him. She assumed it was Chen Mohan and sized him up. "Student from a poor family, were you trying to stand up for her?"
Ruan Qin's henchmen didn't dare to reveal that the one who injured their boss was a mere brat.
Ruan Qin's temper was extremely violent.
The group exchanged glances and decided to keep the matter a secret forever, leaving the blame to the poor, impoverished student.
Silent Han sighed and tossed the stick in her hand. "Just pretend it's me."
He hadn't yet recovered from the shock he'd just experienced.
It's said that Fu Chengrong, the youngest son of the Fu family, died long ago. Who was the person I just saw?
Moreover, he clearly seemed to know Ruan Chen very well!
How did these two end up together?
Seeing that Chen Han admitted it, Ruan Qin's eyes grew even colder.
Yu Xiaoya arrived with more than half of her classmates.
Although these people weren't very familiar with Ruan Chen, they became agitated when they heard that the high school students dared to cause trouble on the junior high school's territory.
Seeing that there were too many people around, Ruan Qin missed his best chance to make a move on Ruan Chen. He stepped forward and pretended to be friendly, trying to take Ruan Chen's hand, saying, "Dad wants to talk to you. Come home with me after school."
"Dad?" Ruan Chen's lips curled into a mocking smile. "If I remember correctly, I'm listed as a dead person on your Ruan family's household register, right? If I'm not mistaken, the 'Dad' you're talking about refused to see me one last time when the doctor asked him if he wanted to see me after I was in a coma and undergoing emergency treatment. Also, Ruan Qin, you should know why I was in a coma and needed emergency treatment, right?"
Ruan Chen made no attempt to conceal the fact that these conflicts within the Ruan family had surfaced directly.
The girl's cool voice echoed in the corridor, and the classmates who had come with Yu Xiaoya to watch the commotion heard it clearly.
Yu Xiaoya thought about what she had done to Ruan Chen last semester and wished she could slap herself!
If such a beautiful and delicate little sister were born into the Yu family, she would definitely be cherished like the apple of their eye. Are the Ruan family blind?!
Discussions had already begun behind them.
"Damn, is the Ruan family really that ruthless?"
"Don't you guys think it's strange that Ruan Qin and his sister came from such a strange background? They just inexplicably came to the Ruan family and they're so hostile towards his sister."
"Ruan Chen just said she was unconscious and needed emergency treatment. Could it be related to Ruan Qin? Did he beat his sister so badly that she had to be hospitalized? That's outrageous!"
"He looks like a violent person. How did someone like that get a guaranteed admission spot to the First Affiliated Hospital?"
The group of people looked at Ruan Qin with nothing but mockery. Rang Xian, whom Ruan Qin had brought, couldn't take it anymore and whispered, "Boss, shall we go? We can talk about it later."
Ruan Qin gritted his teeth in hatred, thinking viciously to himself, "Since Ruan Chen is already living at school, I'm not worried about not having a chance."
"Walk."
Ruan Chen was somewhat surprised when the crowd dispersed.
It was obvious that Yu Xiaoya had helped him; otherwise, he and Jian Zhi would definitely not have gotten away with it today.
Since classes were canceled, Ruan Chen took Fu Jianzhi to Qinyuan and let him settle down in her dormitory first.
She looked at Fu Jianzhi drinking yogurt and thought to herself, "This kid has grown so fast. He was only up to my chest half a year ago, and now he's almost as tall as my shoulders."
The Fu family was in complete chaos at this moment.
Fu Lin’s son, who had been lost and found, has disappeared again. Last time, he was kidnapped at a private school known for its secrecy. This time, it’s even more outrageous. He vanished into thin air at the heavily guarded weapons research institute of Jinghua University of Technology!
Fu Lin was sweating profusely with anxiety, making one phone call after another until a secure line from the First Military Academy came through.
"Ah Lin, my son saw your Cheng Rong at Huating Academy, with that girl Ruan Chen. Didn't you always have people secretly watching Ruan Chen? You didn't even know your son went to see her?"
Fu Lin let out a sigh of relief, wiped his sweat, and corrected, "This kid's name is Jian Zhi now."
"Your son is your decision-maker. I'm just letting you know."
Fu Lin sighed again, "My son... isn't necessarily under my control. Since he came home this time, he's been mostly working on research at Beijing University of Technology."
“Ah Lin, even if Jian Zhi is Zhan Lu’s only acknowledged master, he is still just a child. Don’t suppress it too much.”
Qinyuan.
Ruan Chen didn't mention contacting Fu Jianzhi's family. She gave him some snacks, casually picked up a book and threw it in front of him, then set up her computer.
Fu Jianzhi sidled up behind her and quietly watched Ruan Chen's actions.
Ruan Chen has been engrossed in reading the "Huangdi Neijing" lately. Today, Fengzi mentioned the National Medical College, which piqued her interest, so she decided to check out the college's internal forum.
The first trending topic caught Ruan Chen's attention.
Our school's medical rescue team stationed on the outlying island went missing at 8:15 this morning.
Ruan Chen's heart skipped a beat. Her slender, white fingertips hovered above the keyboard for a moment before landing heavily to check the post details.
[List of missing teachers and students: Fang Fei, Chen Wanqi, Lin Fengzi...]
Ruan Chen's pupils contracted slightly. She had a gut feeling that this Lin Fengzi was the same "Fengzi" who liked to chatter on and on about math problems.
She reached out towards the bed, and Fu Jianzhi, as if he could read her mind, handed her his phone.
Ruan Chen plugged in the data cable.
This was her first attempt at IP tracking.
The world map was zoomed in on Ruan Chen's computer screen, and the red cursor finally stopped on a city with an awkward name.
Grahamstown.
Grahamston.
After reading through the posts on the National Medical College's internal forum about the missing person incident, Ruan Chen found that no one had mentioned this address.
She used a fake number to call the National Medical College, which was soliciting leads.
"I am Lin Fengzi's... friend."
"The last place she sent a signal today was Grahamston, an island in exile."
"The neighborhood code is..."
“It’s been less than two hours since she went missing, and Grahamston is experiencing thunderstorms today. Assuming it was a kidnapping, the suspect probably wouldn’t have been able to move Fengzi and the others too far.”
"Please arrange rescue as soon as possible."
After Ruan Chen finished speaking, she hung up the phone and said to Fu Jianzhi, who was watching the commotion, "Want to go out for a walk? Want to play in the snow?"
She led Fu Jianzhi out the door, and the computer screen behind them, which was not closed, suddenly lit up, displaying a blood-red skull-shaped pop-up window.
The basement of a Chinese restaurant in Grahamston.
It is also one of the strongholds of Blood Skull, the largest gang on the island of wandering.
Their leader is a man named Su Ze who came from China eight years ago.
"Brother Ze, someone is tracking Lin Fengzi's cell phone signal."
Su Ze, a cigarette dangling from his lips, was completely hidden in the shadows, looking weary and speaking with disdain, "That bunch of trash."
"Brother Ze, they've located us this time, but they seem to lack experience. I've already started tracking back."
Su Ze emerged from the shadows, half of his face horribly sunken, but the other half was breathtakingly handsome, with a lip piercing reflecting a faint luster at the corner of his mouth.
His shoulder-length hair was haphazardly tied back, and ignoring his skeletal face, he didn't have the air of a gangster; he seemed more like a down-on-his-luck artist.
Su Ze lightly licked his lip piercing, as if he had spotted a delicious prey. His light brown, feline-like eyes looked at the computer screen. "When did Huating Academy produce such talent? Is Tianlang still in Jingzhou?"
"exist."
Su Ze, wearing a large emerald ring, gently tapped the screen. "Have Tianlang bring this person back."
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